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Robert Mueller just made it impossible for Trump to call the special counsel probe a 'total hoax'
CNN ^ | February 16, 2018 | Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Posted on 02/16/2018 4:21:21 PM PST by mdittmar

(CNN)On Friday afternoon, the Justice Department announced that special counsel Robert Mueller had indicted 13 Russian nationals for their roles in attempted meddling in the 2016 election.

Most of these people do not live in the United States, and you can bet your bottom dollar that Russia won't be extraditing them any time soon. But that's not the point.
The point is this: The indictments of a baker's dozen of Russians gives us a very clear window into not only the depth and breadth of the Mueller investigation, but also makes crystal clear what the Russians wanted in the 2016 election and the elaborate measures they undertook to make it happen.
This paragraph stands out:
"Defendant ORGANIZATION had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Defendants posted derogatory information about a number of candidates, and by early to mid-2016, Defendants' operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ("Trump Campaign") and disparaging Hillary Clinton. Defendants made various expenditures to carry out those activities, including buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities. Defendants also staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates. Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; cnn; domesticenemies; fakenews; megafakenews; muellerinvestigation; russiansindicted
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

I wish the FBI would get half as worked up about the millions of U.S. citizens whose SS numbers are used fraudulently every year by illegal aliens, and the IRS’s *refusal* to inform those citizens (to not violate the right-to-privacy of the illegals)!


121 posted on 02/16/2018 6:41:33 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: mdittmar

“Robert Mueller just made it impossible for Trump to call the special counsel probe a ‘total hoax’”

No, he did not. He beclouded himself is all that this accomplished.


122 posted on 02/16/2018 6:45:39 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: mdittmar

Chris Cillizza.... always putting forth the maximum “tard” in “Libtard”....


123 posted on 02/16/2018 6:54:49 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: deport
Case 1:18-cr-00032-DLF Document 1 Filed 02/16/18

Initials of Identity Theft Victim
T.B.; A.R.; T.C.; T.W.; V.S.; J.W.

Ok - these are the initials of the "alleged" identity theft victims by the Russians. Wonder how many of these initials belong to members of Clinton/Obama cohorts, so that they can shift the blame to the evil Russians.

124 posted on 02/16/2018 6:57:48 PM PST by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: Shethink13

pity about this:

Trump’s Budget Includes $10 Million for Mueller Probe
Daily Beast· Feb 13, 2018

just think how the real business of the government is not getting done.


125 posted on 02/16/2018 7:21:44 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: mdittmar

Not a Hoax, a Joke and a gigantic waste of Taxpayer Dollars.

Are there any FReepers of Russian Dissent? If so, look out.


126 posted on 02/16/2018 7:30:18 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: mdittmar

>>>Nobody will get that reference but you and me;)<<<

My steel Balls say otherwise. LOL


127 posted on 02/16/2018 7:37:39 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: mdittmar

Thats called a CNN Strawman... Trump never called the investigation a hoax, he called the narrative of him colluding a hoax!

I for one welcomed the investigation as long as it followed the corruption wherever the path lead... not specifically a Trump investigation.


128 posted on 02/16/2018 7:37:55 PM PST by AzNASCARfan
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To: Kickass Conservative

Uh oh, allow me to repost with correction. LOL....

Not a Hoax, a Joke and a gigantic waste of Taxpayer Dollars.

Are there any FReepers of Russian “DESCENT”? If so, look out.


129 posted on 02/16/2018 7:45:01 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: mdittmar
Robert Mueller just made it impossible for Trump to call the special counsel probe a 'total hoax'...

Mueller indicted a bunch of people whom he knew would never have an opportunity to defend themselves in court.

THE HAM SANDWICH IS ALWAYS GUILTY.

130 posted on 02/16/2018 8:02:33 PM PST by TChad (Leftthink: Reality is sadly out of touch with the higher truth.)
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To: mdittmar

“Defendant ORGANIZATION had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system...”

Yes, and the dems and their media lapdogs colluded with the
Russians to disrupt our political system extended the entire length of the Trump administration.


131 posted on 02/16/2018 8:11:35 PM PST by euram
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To: mdittmar

Talk about reaching. Soon it will dawn on them that Cankles is the real target of all the investigations. Mulehead has been a convenient smokescreen.


132 posted on 02/16/2018 8:39:05 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: mdittmar

It’s not a hoax. It’s a friggin’ pathetic joke.


133 posted on 02/16/2018 9:10:37 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: mdittmar

Humphrey, is that you?


134 posted on 02/16/2018 9:14:41 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: LS

Good to see you here. You’ve been doing the lord’s work.


135 posted on 02/16/2018 9:16:09 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: mdittmar

Those commies at CNN never learn.

Massive layoffs, a cancerous fake news crisis, and the humiliating (and expensive) implosion of its digital platform, appear to be the least of CNN’s problems. Because on top of all that, when compared to last year, the far-left cable channel has lost -30 percent of its primetime viewers and -23 percent of its total day viewers.

So why is CNN imploding while its competition continues to thrive?

It probably comes down to a combination of fake news and hate fatigue.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/02/15/nolte-hate-fatigue-cnn-viewership-collapses-30/


136 posted on 02/16/2018 9:29:12 PM PST by 1035rep
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To: TheConservativeTejano

An extradition treaty with Russia isn’t necessary. There are quite a few other countries which will extradite people wanted by the U.S. Should any of them fly into Heathrow or Charles de Gaulle Airport or Schiphol they’d likely be seized and sent here. If they leave Russia they’re running the risk of being caught.


137 posted on 02/16/2018 10:01:41 PM PST by Coronal
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To: Kickass Conservative

Yeah only bad when it is Republicans doing it right... Didn’t Liberals cheer the Russian RESET? Seems like it was Obama that told Putin he would have a lot more room to deal after getting re-elected. Wasn’t that right before or just after they told us Benghazi happened because of a youtube video??


138 posted on 02/16/2018 11:06:11 PM PST by AzNASCARfan
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To: OftheOhio

25,000 Chinese spies in the country and they’re worried about a handful of Russians. Yet George Soros has a free hand to do whatever he wishes.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Where is paki spy imran awan these days?


139 posted on 02/17/2018 1:53:46 AM PST by thinden
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To: DouglasKC

I love how they move the goalpost. NO collusion at all. A nonsense indictment about people on Facebook that won’t and can’t go anywhere else and CNN is going around crowing that somehow Trump is in trouble.

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The “crimes” discovered in mueller probe indictment are classis hildabeast/DNC/Clowns In Action/Alinsky projection


140 posted on 02/17/2018 1:59:32 AM PST by thinden
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